[Patricia Campion]

I find it rather amusing -- the panic on the left.

The testimony of the Benghazi survivors -- the self-described "whistle-blowers," who have dared to step forward and tell their stories, despite the threats from those who stand to lose the most -- has pretty much decimated the story that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (with the assistance of the essentially useless Press Secretary Jay Carney and the embarrassingly naive U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice) pushed to cover their own asses.

A little side-note on those Benghazi survivors:

Were it not for the heroic efforts of those ex-Navy SEALs -- Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- who disobeyed the orders to "stand down"... TWICE... and lead a rescue team from their location (a mile away)to the Benghazi compound after they heard shots being fired -- those "whistle-blowers" might not be have been alive to testify on Wednesday.

Makes the possible explanation as to why they were told to "stand down" -- and why subsequent rescue personnel were told "not to go" -- come into ugly perspective -- doesn't it?

Even more entertaining (or "pathetic"... I can't quite decide yet) is the amount of frantic effort the liberal MSM and their blogger minions are expelling to deny and beat back the obvious -- that Hillary is toast in 2016.

Sure... there might be enough of what Rush Limbaugh describes as "low information voters" to elect her as the Democratic nominee for 2016. But, as South Carolina Republican Rep.Sen. Lindsey Graham posed(rhetorically) to National Review on Thursday:

"How in the world could she have believed that the death of Chris Stevens was a spontaneous riot motivated by a hateful video?”

"Either she is completely disconnected from reality or that was political spin."

"Ultimately, the voters will decide,” Graham conceded, “but if you’re running to be commander in chief, people are going to judge you by the job you’ve done.”

And, as I noted in my article -- Hillary's scandal record is LONG.

In his equally frantic screed -- "GOP’s trumped-up Benghazi scandal hasn’t tarnished Hillary Clinton" -- Pat Cunningham parroted Lewison's silly lament, "that Clinton’s name was mentioned almost five times as often as President Obama’s in Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Benghazi."

"The objective of the GOP scandal-mongers was clear: Bring Hillary down a peg or two or five."

Whatever.

"Evidently," he "can’t imagine why Clinton – the “fmr. secretary of state,” whose duty it was to protect the lives of Chris Stevens, Sean Smith and ex-Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty who were killed under her watch – would be “mentioned” so many times during a hearing aimed at finding out who was responsible for the decisions that ultimately led to their deaths" either.

He's "betting that the next batch of polls measuring Clinton’s popularity will show that she remains far more well-liked among the American people than any Republican politician in the land."

Yeah... and I'm betting that "should Clinton decide to make a run at the presidency in 2016, she better start figuring out how she’s going to make a “corkscrew landing” through her past and start practicing how to duck the sniper fire that is sure to ensue as she runs across the campaign tarmac."

Your thoughts?

[VRW Conspirator]

"The objective of the GOP scandal-mongers was clear: Bring Hillary down a peg or two or five

Spoken just like a die-hard Democrat. The criminal blames the cops for sullying his reputation.

[b4its2late]

WAY worse than any screwed up Arkansas land deal. I guess though I cannot say for certain that no one died because of Whitewater (just check Alamo Girls list), but we know there were deaths at Benghazi and Hillary was there to get a photo op with the US flag draped coffins.

[Biggirl]

Prediction: Hillary will walk away, go home to write her memorirs, and take on the role of being a “grandmother”. She knows she has been thrown with Rice under “the bus”.

[upchuck]

On Friday, Bloomberg’s Francis Wilkinson predicted that “Benghazi will be Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Whitewater.”

How nice to be able to respond to the article author.

Thank you for using that tried and true sentence structure instead of the newspeak:

Bloomberg’s Francis Wilkinson predicted on Friday that “Benghazi will be Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Whitewater.”

That drives me crazy. So unnatural.

Your article is spot on. Thank you. How nice to have someone telling it like it is from our side. You give us hope.

[BykrBayb]

Very good first post!
First of many, I hope.

[Tupelo]

I don't know if Hillary will be the 2016 Democrat Presidential nominee or not,but I do know that NO Republican will be elected.
There are 2 maybe 3 Republicans that could possibly pull out a win if the party would unite to elect them. Palin, Paul and maybe Cruz could get 90+% of the Conservative vote, BUT there is no way the GOPe would back them. The same way that conservatives would NOT support any of the Northeast Liberal Establishment type of the GOPe. I guess I have to agree with a talk show host I respect, "I will not live long enough to see another Republican President".

[no-to-illegals]

Your thoughts?

Lindsey knows there is much, much, much more to the story than simply the truth regarding Benghazi. The crimes committed by our so-called representatives in D.C. mount up to the heights of mountains daily. I want to know your thoughts on when will D.C. come clean and tell the American People the truth regarding all the scandals and crimes committed. I know this will not happen where America and Americans will be told the truth regarding all the scandals and crimes committed by D.C. because the people in D.C. claiming to represent us hide from us constantly the truth and make We the People dig and dig and dig deep for the truth. When digging for the truth We the People are placed in harms way, and death for ourselves and our families stalk us. Most in D.C. would rather We the People go away and be good little serfs and not bother asking for the truth. Asking for the truth, from D.C., is akin to asking the monster to behave. The monster will never behave. The system has gone into strange brew and the monster is loose.

[Enterprise]

The libs are reflexively defending Hillary, but they need to look at the "big picture." This isn't about a bimbo snapping her thong at Bill, this is about walking away and letting 4 people die, and the suspicion that if necessary, another 28 people would have been allowed to die. The people who are angry at her aren't a group of partisans. The people who are angry at her come from the State Department, the CIA, and the Military. Some of these people were on the scene or near it during the events of Benghazi.

I suggest that liberals to take a page from Alcoholics Anonymous here and start reciting the serenity prayer - continuously.

[ncpatriot]

Very interesting commentary.

[Thank You Rush]

“”those “whistle-blowers” might not be have been alive to testify on Wednesday.””

As near as I can tell from their testimony, none of them were in Benghazi the night of the attack. Nordstrom left Lybia in July, Hicks was in Tripoli and I believe Thompson was in Tripoli also. Does anyone know anything different?

Other than that - it’s a delight to see the dems twisting themselves into knots!

[Grampa Dave]

— Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jan. 23, 2013:

“I wasn’t involved in the talking points process.... As I understand it, as I’ve been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the State Department, all participated, to try to come up with whatever was going to be made publicly available, and it was an intelligence product.”

“With all due respect,the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”—Hillary Clinton

Benghazi Jay's ears can't believe the bs he is spreading at this outhouse press mugging conference.

"With new details emerging in the Benghazi-gate controversy, the White House held a background discussion with more than a dozen news organizations. Shown below is Herr Obozo pleading with his out house mediots to save his butt!"

[Verginius Rufus]

The whistleblowers who testified this week were in Tripoli, not Benghazi, on Sept. 11, 2012. Their lives were not threatened. There are a number of eyewitnesses whose lives were saved by the heroic actions of the two former SEALS, Woods and Doherty, who have been forced to keep quiet and not talk to Congress. If they could testify, they might not have inside information on what Obama and Hillary were doing on 9/11/12, but they could raise public consciousness of the horror of how Obama handled the situation—but for Woods and Doherty some or all of them would also be dead.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good post Patricia. Welcome to FR. Hope to see more articles like this.